Word: instinctive
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...most honest - and certainly the most exciting - movie about the secret war ever made. It also represents a comeback for Verhoeven, who left his native Holland in the mid-1980s for Hollywood, where he made big budget sci-fi movies like Starship Troopers and sexually controversial pictures like Basic Instinct, before the resounding failure of Showgirls nearly drove him out of the business. He talked to TIME's Richard Schickel about his new film and the wild ride that brought...
...Well, it's correct when the movie asks for it. When I feel that it's not to the point I don't do it. You could also say that in American movies like Basic Instinct or Showgirls I was not really a strong participant in the creation of the scripts, of the ideas. I was just projecting into the project as much of myself as I could. So it might just be the director putting himself, his signature - his soul, if you want to be heavier - into the movie. I had the feeling I could do something completely innovative...
...sense the sexuality of Black Book is like that Basic Instinct and Showgirls. There's a simple acceptance that human beings are sexually driven creatures. They will sometimes get it on in the most amazing circumstances...
...sessions, follow one another in dizzying succession - in contrast to most such films, which tend to focus on people standing around looking dour and anxious while moodily plotting to blow up the munitions train. Most significantly, perhaps, it is directed by Paul Verhoeven, who achieved both controversial success (Basic Instinct) and near-universal condemnation (Showgirls) for his hard-driving, raunch-laden American exercises in big-budget sex and violence...
...media you still often see a negative portrayal of kids-kids on drugs, kids with guns, kids who suck at math. Our-kids-are-in-danger stories emit from a nexus of codependency between parents (whose default instinct is to be worried) and reporters (whose default instinct is to make others worry...